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Beta Sign-Ups for WarCraft III

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-play dept.

Alcachofo writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the long waited Beta Sign-Ups for their newest game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Individuals residing in the USA or Canada will be able to register for a chance to be one of the 5,000 players chosen. The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period, beginning on January 7th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) and ending on January 8th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8)." I couldn't even count the number of great hours of fun WC2 provided us back in the day. What an absolute classic. I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy.

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  1. I can't wait by Wind_Walker · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Warcraft III is, by far, one of the most eagerly anticipated games of, oh, the past EPOCH. My only problem is this: To be a Beta tester, you have to have a lot of free time to play and debug the game, especially online. This means long hours of sitting at night, playing Warcraft III endlessly. Why is this bad? Oh, let me count the ways:
    • Civilization III
    • Halo
    • GTA3
    • Final Fantasy X
    • Super Smash Brothers: Melee
    • Pikmin
    Not to mention the countless TV programs, and...

    They say that Truth is the first casualty of war. I say that sleep is the first victim of Beta testing...

  2. Let's cross our fingers. by Bender+Unit+22 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As much as I loved playing Warcraft I/II, I fear that they really have to got some new great ideas. When these types of games were introduced to the public, the game concept was new and fresh and with the help of coax ethernet it gave a new dimension to the PC games market. But now we have seen so many games since, most of them "updated" version with better graphics. So one hopes that they have managed twist the gameplay just enough to have us oldtimers excited again(it seems to require more that just fancy attributes these days). If they fail at that, there's always a new crowd that haven't the pleasure of the old games and are ready for this.

  3. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are very self-centered.

  4. Re:Any news on system requirements? by HalfFlat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    really though, when it comes to optimized code, great game play, and solid support, you know Blizzard will deliver, no need to even ask..
    Clearly you haven't been playing much Diablo II.

    Diablo II has been plagued with graphics slow downs - including obvious redundant overdraws! - that meant that it ran unsteadily even on top of the line hardware at release date.

    Despite marketting it as an online game with secure servers, the servers in question were regularly overloaded and unstable. They were - and still are - not close net-wise to a large number of players, yet the gameplay is very intolerant of high latency connections to servers.

    Play over a local network is plagued with inexplicable latency spikes.

    It was (and with the expansion still is) a hugely popular game, yet promised continued support in the way of new runewords, cube recipies and the like have never materialised.

    They changed gameplay rather than address underlying flaws in the graphics code of the game.

    By all accounts, Starcraft is a well designed, well coded, and well supported game. Their more recent project - Diablo II - is good fun, but in spite of rather than because of the game's support and performance.

    I am wary of Warcraft III. If it fulfills its promise it will be grand. I'll wait and see.